Our first cloudy day in over 5 weeks!

Louise has been busy polishing the stainless steel on the boat, and I've attacked the port side toe rail with scrapper and sandpaper.

We've decided to eliminate ALL varnish on the exterior of the boat and treat the exposed teak with tung oil. Hopefully we'll never have to scrap again!

Great work for a cloudy day.

The solar panels are struggling to keep up the batteries, and we'll start to fall behind if the weather doesn't improve (or I'll start the generator and recharge everything).

At noon the 520 Watt panels are generating 75 watts due to the clouds (14%efficiency) so it's a good thing we've got lots of big batteries on board. For that matter, I've never gotten more than 240 watts out of them on the full sun days. I suspect the "rating" on the panel is optimistic and/or measure in deep space.

We decided to try out the BBQ with our lobster dinner last night, and discovered that our full spare tank of propane was completely empty. Getting propane involves delivering the empty tank to Sid's Grocery store, who in turn, ships them to Marsh Harbour on Thursday's freight boat, to be returned the following Thursday. Let's hope we can last that long on the current tank.

Never a dull moment!

glen